I’m very sorry, but something overshadows the news that Hypercharge: Unboxed has launched on early access. It’s a multiplayer wave survival (bear with me) tower defence FPS (please) where you play as a little action figure, running around household environments that dwarf your teeny tiny limbs. And laser rifles. And the hordes of robots coming to take out your hyper-cores.

I’ve had a poke and there isn’t all much to it, at the moment, but hopping about on toilet lids and trying to escape bath tubs does recapture some of thrill of the Toy Story 2 videogame. Which RPS has scandalously never written about.

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